HUD Admits Decades of Delay as Election Approach-Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) say HUD Took 10YRs to OK Multi-Family Manufactured Homes After They Raised Issue
Housing Affordability Ranks High Among Voters-‘Forever Renters,’ Rising Homelessness, Out of Reach Housing Costs, and Most Proven Solution to Affordable Housing Crisis; Facts-Analysis
Patrick Waite – Equity LifeStyle Properties EVP COO and Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Executive Committee Member – Dumps over $1.4 Million in Shares of ELS; William Lutz on Doublespeak
Loper Bright’s Light on FHFA-Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac-Duty to Serve Manufactured Housing and ‘a Pimple on an Elephant’s Ass’ – Eye-Opening Warren Buffett-DTS for Manufactured Homes with Analysis
Rebeka Zeljko – ‘Wall Street Worried Trump Election Victory Will Benefit Citizens by Increasing Earnings for Americans thus Cutting Corporate Profits’ U.S. plus MHVille Facts with Analysis
SECO-Linked Community Operator David Roden Questions Manufactured Housing Institute Leaders ‘Where is National Manufactured Home Marketing Program Like GoRVing or Got Milk?’ Emails-Facts-Analysis
Cat’s Out-Manufactured Housing Institute-Housing Coalition Letter to Congress Fact Check-Analysis Reveals What MHI, NAR, NAHB, MBA, Others Did-Didn’t Request-AI Affordable Housing Surprises Await
‘With NPR’s Left-Wing Bias Again Exposed Its Taxpayer Subsidies Draw Renewed Scrutiny’ – Polemics About NPR CEO Katherine Maher-Uri Berliner – Why it Matters to MHVille – Facts and Analysis
‘Which Came First the Chicken or the Egg?’ Unveiled – Science-Reason-Faith-Business-Ethical Behavior Challenges Reveal Keen Insights on Charlie Munger, Sam Zell, Warren Buffett and Many Others
Affordable Housing Crisis Solution Made Easy – 9 Minutes of Facts with Applied Common Sense
previous arrow
next arrow

Arrested! Convicted! In Manufactured Housing News

The news last week about the Lochmiller conviction reported in factory built housing Daily Business News should be a wake up call for many. For those of us who have watched the ups and downs of HUD Code manufactured housing, we recall that in the 80s, 90s and early 00s, some took advantages of apparent weaknesses in the financing system.

https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/2011-07-22_1617_Phil_Lochmiller_Photo_Courtesy_of_Channel_5_News-150x133.png
Lochmiller convicted

Some of them ended up meeting federal agents. Some went to federal prisons.

So we should not be surprised when it happens today. While the Lochmiller case is different, some similarities exist. Including the reality of conviction.

I hear some (more than one, these days) speaking out on legally compliant in house financing or captive financing. It is the wise path to do things by the book for those who think long term.

But when I think ‘arrested,’ what seems arrested is not just Lochmiller. What has been arrested is our entire industry!

We see progress in DC – arrested – on Industry issues.

We see shipment numbers – read new home sales – arrested at most of our factories.

We see vacancies in manufactured home land lease communities not only arrested – standing still – but in many locations, going backwards.

We need a program – a PR Image and Marketing campaign – to reverse our Industry’s fortunes.

Our thanks to all who have called and emailed about the teaser in the Cutting Edge about our new website format, and the planned Industry Image campaign.  We plan to share some quotes and insights soon, but in the mean time, check it out by clicking and reading more here.

Store Closing Sale at MHMSM.com photo courtesy Flickr cc Jakerome
We don't need any more retailers, communities and factories closing. But we must ACT if we are to keep that from happening in ever greater numbers.

In the mean time, if you feel your sales are under arrest, please sound off, or reach out.  Take practical steps.  If you don’t know that you don’t know, learn more here.

We have been under arrest more than long enough! # #


 


 


LATEST MASTHEAD

sunshinehomes-mhpronews
sunshinehomes-mhpronews
MHARR